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As others have said, you need to reinstall the sound card driver. If the sound card in integrated with (built directly into) your motherboard, you should have a motherboard CD that has all of these drivers on it. If you don't have the CD, get the model number of the motherboard from your device manager and download the drivers online.

If you have a non-integrated sound card, open the computer up and get the sound card model number. Download and reinstall the drivers online.

Out of curiosity, do you know how you got the virus? I just cleaned somebody's computer who got one from opening an email attachment claiming to be from UPS. Turns out, his sound card drivers are gone and I have to go visit him to reinstall.

The computer is sort of “communal property”. I use it my roommate uses it and so do people who visit. It’s hooked up to my Philips 47 inch and occasionally we go to OVGuide to look at movies. I’m thinking that one of the websites on OV was compromised and may have infected it. I clean out the computer on a regular basis with CCleaner and EasyClean, plus I get rid of all the %temp% files and scan it with SuperSpyware eliminator, Spybot, Spyware terminator and Defender. I have looked in the original box and had no motherboard CD. I will try that.